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Show E News Notes l It's a Privilege to Live in Utah ! Gunnison With organization of a ocal poultry association at Gunnison :he poultry industry in the Gunnison alley holds promise of rapid expansion. expan-sion. The organization has started on i campaign to secure a large sign-up if members. Plans already have been nade to ship several thousand baby :ihicks into the valley next spring to enlarge existing flocks and start new 3nes on farms whose operations are nterested in entering the new activity. Ephraim A number of city oU.-:ials, oU.-:ials, the city electrician and some business men of Ephraim met with Howard C. Means of the Telluride Power company Saturday to discuss the power from the Telluride company. com-pany. It was agreed by all that something some-thing must be done to insure light and pow;er for Ephraim during the coming winter, and the proposition ot the Telluride company seems very jood to some of those present. Ephraim Considerable interest is being aroused locally by an experiment experi-ment by Ross Jensen of Ephraim In Tapping the alfalfa weevil. The main weapon used by Mr. Jensen is molasses, molas-ses, from a sugar mill. To this he idds a bait, the nature of which he is .villing to explain to any farmer. The jan or other container with the mix-.ure mix-.ure in is placed at a convenient place n the alfalfa field. If it is a calm, warm day, such as those of late, it :akes only a few hours' to get the ;ontainer filled with a seething mix-lure mix-lure of weevil and molosses. Provo ..ork on the new plant of :he Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company, now in course of construc-:ion construc-:ion at Ironton, is progressing rapidly, iccording to George E. Sibbett, gen-2ral gen-2ral managsr of the plant. The plant s now under roof and machinery s jeing rapidly installed, and prospects ire favorable that operations will be-jin be-jin some time in November. Salt Lake The continued marketing 3f breeding stock throughout the country coun-try bears a semblance to burning the candle at both ends, and the cowman should consider well before he lets go of his breeding stock, particularly if it is of proper type and quality, is the idvice of J. A. McNaughton, general manager of the Los Angeles Union stockyards. Figures cited by the Los Angelean show that for the first seven months of this year approximately 85 per cent of the cattle slaughtered Sn the United States was classified: 49 per cent steers, 4 8 per cent cows and aeifers, and 3 per cent bulls and stags. Myton Starting Monday a series of community farm and home meetings meet-ings will be held tnroughout the Uintah basin. It is announced by. ..he Uintah farm bureau. These meetings will be attended by officials of the Utah state farm bureau and the Utah Agricultural extension division. M. P. Brown, president, and M. S. Winder, secretary, will represent the state bureau, while Rena P.. Maycock will attend as representative of th? college. col-lege. E. E. Smith, who is coT. 'cting seed for the Utah exhibit, to the international in-ternational hay and grain show, will make the trip tit the same time to meet witn basin seedsmen. Ephraim Several cars of sheep and lambs are being shipped from Ephraim. Eph-raim. P. C. Peterson shipped a car out Tuesday, and Seymour E. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, O. C. Doke and Ruel Anderson Ander-son shiped a car of Rambotiillet and Hampshire rams to Ogden. Ogden Petitions requesting the city commissioners to open Grant avenue from the Riverdale road on the south of Ogden to Harrisville road on the north of the city, thereby establishing another artery of traffic, were place-in place-in circulation Thursday. Opening oi this street means merely the crea.tlon of roads at the two extremities. Washington A deatchnient of fifty-five fifty-five marines, in charge of two officers was reported here as en route fron. the marine corps base at San Diego to Salt Lake City to establish the postal guard there. Rilleting quarters for the detachment, which is part of the Fourth regiment of marines, will b-sought b-sought in a National Guard armory or some other suitable place. The troops will be fed at restaurants under contract. con-tract. Salt Lake There are now more students stu-dents registered at the University of Utah than at any fall quarter in its history. A total of 2l',r2 students, coming from the majority of the slates of the union and from eleven foreign countries are now attending classes at the state institution. In numbers. Idaho leads tho list of states having students on the Utah campus. California, Cali-fornia, Wyoming, Colrado, Arizona and Montana follow in close succession. |